Breaking USA Network's near stranglehold on the top prime-time spot, with the Democratic National Convention behind it CNN claimed the top spot in the prime-time cable network average viewer ranking with an average of 3.152 million prime-time viewers. Fox News was second with 2.836 million, and MSNBC wasn't far behind at #8 with 1.586 million.

Convention or not, no one beats Nickelodeon (and SpongeBob) for the #1 spot for Total Day cable viewers. This week Nickelodeon won with an average of 2.186 million. Fox News came the closest among the newsers at #3 with 1.441 million viewers.